He ordered the doors to be immediately closed, and desired all to unmask.

Carried by his guards into an apartment in the opera-house, he was confided to his surgeons.

He admitted some of the foreign ministers into his presence, and spoke to them with all the calmness of a strong mind.

Even his pain did not inspire him with any feeling of vengeance.

Generous even in death, he demanded anxiously if the assassin had been apprehended.